> It’s a Kafkaesque experience to try to prove that you have not stolen writing from a machine that stole your writing in the first place. ... My business isn’t

> It’s a Kafkaesque experience to try to prove that you have not stolen writing from a machine that stole your writing in the first place. ... My business isn’t dead, but it’s wounded Something similar I thought[0] would be happening. Not only commercial LLM operators abuse copyright, take away profit and turn every author into a ghost writer for their products—but they also make your (now former) audience not believe you have done original work that was expropriated from you, usually without your consent. In case of Hugh Taylor this meant tarnished reputation. Over longer term, it means elimination of incentives to share information openly, as you stand nothing to gain in terms of respect if the next person automatically assumes that you have simply paid for some LLM. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34665676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34665676